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etbYou have no chance to ride 28X make your time.
To be fair, it's much less brain-damaged than past cut proposals, and this brochure shows that the new regime at PAT can sort of explain what's going on, even if whiny CMU students won't want to read the "Service per Capital [sic]" section any more than Bush wants to read a newspaper. (To be fair to whiny CMU students—and I'm not sure why we should bother—vehicle-hours per capita don't scale linearly with actual rider convenience; vehicle-hours are going to be excessive in Allegheny County because of topography. Providing any service to every little hilltop and hollow requires a lot of vehicles; it's not like Southeast Portland.)
There's also a pretty awful irony in the fact that the maps showing current service, part of a set showing current and proposed service, are the best PAT system maps in years.
Oh, and speaking of whiny CMU students, apart from the 28X the relevant proposed cuts appear to be minor. It's the suburbs that get slammed. If CMU and Pitt have any sense they'll put out feelers about directly funding part of the 28X cost so it gets artificially pushed up the "scorecard", just like states subsidizing certain Amtrak routes makes them look "profitable" to the Congressional brain trust.
To be fair, it's much less brain-damaged than past cut proposals, and this brochure shows that the new regime at PAT can sort of explain what's going on, even if whiny CMU students won't want to read the "Service per Capital [sic]" section any more than Bush wants to read a newspaper. (To be fair to whiny CMU students—and I'm not sure why we should bother—vehicle-hours per capita don't scale linearly with actual rider convenience; vehicle-hours are going to be excessive in Allegheny County because of topography. Providing any service to every little hilltop and hollow requires a lot of vehicles; it's not like Southeast Portland.)
There's also a pretty awful irony in the fact that the maps showing current service, part of a set showing current and proposed service, are the best PAT system maps in years.
Oh, and speaking of whiny CMU students, apart from the 28X the relevant proposed cuts appear to be minor. It's the suburbs that get slammed. If CMU and Pitt have any sense they'll put out feelers about directly funding part of the 28X cost so it gets artificially pushed up the "scorecard", just like states subsidizing certain Amtrak routes makes them look "profitable" to the Congressional brain trust.
